"I live in fear that one day our visa application will be rejected and the police will come and force us to go back to Togo. Here my daughter has the healthcare she needs. She can't survive in Togo. We can't go back."
"The girl's mother moved to Britain from Togo in west Africa with her husband for work in 2017, when he had a diplomatic posting and she worked as a cleaner. The family were due to qualify for indefinite leave to remain next year, a decade after they arrived, meaning they would no longer have to spend thousands of pounds renewing their visa every two and a half years."
"Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, is doubling the length of time required before many people can gain settlement rights from five years to 10 years as part of hardline immigration reforms. The changes will also make it more difficult for people who have relied on welfare support to gain indefinite leave to remain, with longer waiting periods."
A mother from Togo fears her six-year-old daughter, a cancer survivor receiving ongoing specialist care at Great Ormond Street Hospital, will lose access to crucial NHS treatment due to new immigration restrictions. The girl was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at age two, underwent two rounds of chemotherapy, and had a tumor removed at four. The family arrived in Britain in 2017 on a work visa and were previously on track to gain indefinite leave to remain after ten years. New immigration reforms effective in April will double the settlement waiting period to ten years and impose stricter welfare-related restrictions, potentially rejecting future visa applications. The mother expresses deep concern that visa rejection could force the family to return to Togo, where her daughter cannot access the specialized medical care she requires for survival.
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